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130:3-4 With You There Is Forgiveness. The song acknowledges that if God should mark iniquities (as if he kept them in a record book), no one, not even the faithful who are singing this, could stand. And yet with the Lord there is forgiveness: this is what God promises his people who come to him in faith (cf. 86:5; 103:3; Neh. 9:17; Dan. 9:9), and this is why he may be feared (i.e., worshiped and served in loving reverence).